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10.09.13

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, October 9, 2013, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Tonight’s Premieres:
Cooking: Best in Chow at 10:30p
CW: Arrow at 8p, The Tomorrow People at 9p
FX: American Horror Story: Coven at 10p
History: American Pickers at 9p
MTV: Big Tips Texas at 9p
Oxygen: Preachers of LA at 10p
Science: Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman at 9p, How the Earth Works at 10p

Tonight’s Finales:
ID: Evil Kin at 8p
PBS: Earthflight at 8p

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ABC‘s Modern Family made a splash syndication, debuting at number one in the W18-49 demo among all syndie premieres in over ten years, according to Nielsen. With a 4.1 household rating, the 20th Century Fox Television sitcom was number two in households for the same period, after The Big Bang Theory‘s 2011 launch.

NBC acquired U.S. rights to Welcome to Sweden, exec produced by Amy Poehler and her brother, Greg Poehler. Greg will star in the fish-out-of-water comedy from Entertainment One based on his own experience moving to Sweden, with cameos from sister Amy, Will Ferrell and Gene Simmons. The show was originally commissioned by Sweden’s TV4 and was the net’s first English-speaking series.

Twitter is rolling out its Amplify partnership with Viacom internationally with the 2013 MTV EMA, airing live from Amsterdam on Sunday, November 10. MTV will offer sponsorship opportunities around the show’s performances and backstage interviews.

Kelly Ripa isn’t all talk. ABC has put into development a sitcom from the Live! With Kelly and Michael host and her former All My Children co-star and husband, Mark Consuelos, about a single mom and her precocious teen. General Hospital: Night Shift scribe Sri Rao will write, and exec produce with the couple for ABC Studios, reports Deadline.

Pivot and Monster.com are going wide with the search for an associate producer for the new net’s late night show, TakePart Live. The hunt for candidates is part of a sponsorship agreement intended to encourage and assist millennial job-seekers. Candidates who are “creative, organized, and thrive under the deadline pressure of live television” can apply at www.takepartlive.com/live.

Santa Barbara wants to lure reality shows to the county with cash rebates. The catch: the shows have to be “on brand,” a county rep told Hollywood Reporter, “driven by themes of romance, culinary, and outdoor aspirational lifestyle.”

Telemundo has launched an education initiative with youth development agency Woodcraft Rangers offering after-school television production courses for students in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the LA area. “This is a great way for Telemundo Media to further develop its relationship with the communities it serves,” said EVP, Chief Diversity Officer at NBCUniversal Craig Robinson, “and kick start the careers of the next generation of broadcasters.”

TV One posted its best quarterly day performance in history across all key demos, up 23 percent in A18-49 in 3Q13 year-over-year. “It seems as soon as we set one network record, we shatter another,” Alfred Liggins, TV One President and CEO tells Cynopsis. “We continue to evolve our programming strategy to meet the tastes and demands of our viewers.” Original primetime series R&B Divas LA and Fatal Attraction were ratings growth drivers.

Travel Channel tells the stories of getaways that got out of hand in UFOs Crashed My Vacation.  The one-hour special from Indigo Films airs Thursday, October 12 at 8p.

For more tales of travel gone awry, Travel has ordered RV Rampage, a docu-series from Tuesday’s Child about couples challenged by mobile home journeys.

The clock is ticking… Cynopsis Future TV Summit-Content Innovation & Next Generation Advertising Models is October 17 in NYC. This 360-degree, in-depth look at TV’s opportunities and challenges at this critical moment in media, from the perspective of sellers, advertisers and content creators, is next week! To register: http://www.cynopsisfuturetvsummit.com/

T.I. (Boss) has signed on to guest star on Showtime‘s House of Lies. The singer/actor will play a clothing company owner in the comedy, returning for season three on Sunday, January 12 at 10p.

UP has renewed Bulloch Family Ranch for a sophomore season. The uplifting docu-series from Peace Point Entertainment, which in July had the highest-rated premiere in the net’s nine-year history, started production in Lakeland, FL for a 2014 return.

MTV2 is bringing back Tuesday night’s Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out and new series Ain’t That America with Lil Duval. Resurrected Wild, which first aired on MTV, is the highest rated show in the young male-skewing net’s history, averaging 1.1 million total viewers and 1.3 P12-34. Lil Duval came in second, with a .8 P12-34 rating.

True crime series Cold Justice has gotten the go-ahead for another run on TNT. The Magical Elves production finishes its first season Tuesday, October 22 at 10p.

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Syfy has greenlit Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, a competition from The Jim Henson Company featuring contestants vying for $100,000 to build the best fantastical creatures.

NBC has given a put pilot commitment to Lionsgate TV and Roughcut Television for BBC Three hit Cuckoo, reports Deadline. The U.K. version features pre-Brooklyn Nine-Nine Andy Samberg as a hippie slacker.
 

Rohrs Media Group is renewing Bridezillas for season two in syndication, on the heels of a successful launch last month. “Stations have watched the show grow in viewership week 1 to week 2 to week 3,” said company president John Rohrs of the reality series, wrapping up its tenth season on WE tv.

U.K. hit Broadchurch has been sold by Shine International to 100 territories. BBC America nabbed the crime drama, which Fox is adapting for the U.S. with David Tennant remaining in his starring role, reportedly with an American accent, for the 2014-2015 season

China’s CCTV2 has acquired local rights to The Taste. The Red Arrow International cooking show will be sponsored by Siemens Home Appliances, for a potential audience of 1.2 billion people.

ITV Studios inked a deal with Australia’s UKTV for 227 hours of programming, including detective series Inspector Morse and Prime Suspect.

Call for Submissions: Cynopsis is producing its annual Holiday Programming Guide, which comes out on November 26 and will be sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers. If your network has holiday-themed programming airing from November 27 through December 31, please send your listings to Lynn Leahey at [email protected] no later than Monday November 18. Please include the following information: type of program (i.e. series, special, documentary, movie or holiday-themed episode), title, dates and times of all airings (please indicate when the show first premieres and when subsequent encores will air). A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lynn (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

NBC took the demo for the third week in a row Monday night, with The Voice drawing a solid 4.6 rating/13 share in the A18-49demo, about even with last week; freshman series The Blacklist dipped just slightly at 3.1/9.

New CBS drama Hostages was down 20 percent from last week in A18-49, to 1.2/3, and We Are Men drew 1.8/5 A18-49. The bright spot: How I Met Your Mother, down just a tenth and still strong at 3.0/9 A18-49.

Saturday’s broadcast of Cedar Cove, the second to last of the season, scored a 2.1 HH rating and 2.2 million total viewers. Since the show’s July debut, Cove has averaged a 2.0 HH rating, making the Hallmark Channel drama the number one cable network show in its time period every Saturday.

Sunday’s mid-season premiere of Long Island Medium, complemented by a Twitter event offering viewers a chance for a reading with Theresa Caputo, scored a 1.8 rating in W25-54 and 2.6 million total viewers. It was cable’s number one program in its time slot in W25-54.

Showtime newcomer Masters of Sex is off to a promising start: The series followed up the 1 million viewers it drew for its debut with a 1.1 million for its second ep on Sunday.

Fox News shuffled its primetime lineup and Monday’s ratings showed the net up 1 percent over a year ago, to 2.027 million viewers for the night – but down 15 percent in A24-54, to 329,000. Versus 3Q 2013 numbers, though, the tweaked lineup was up by 6 percent in the demo.

Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 9/30/13

Source: Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data

Top Ten Ad-Supported Basic Cable Network Performance among Total Viewers for the week of: 9/30/13       

Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800,000 homes.
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day.
Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8P-11P and Sun 7P-11P. Total day is Mon-Sun 6A-6A for household and demographic performance.

Top Ten Ad-Supported Basic Cable Network Performance among A18-49 for the week of: 9/30/13

Source: Turner Research from The Nielsen Company data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800,000 homes.
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day.
Notes: Data based on most currently available Nielsen data stream; Preliminary: Live+SD. Primetime is Mon-Sat 8P-11P and Sun 7P-11P. Total day is Mon-Sun 6A-6A for household and demographic performance.

Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 P2+ (000) for the week of: 9/30/13

Source: Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total US Television Universe of 115,800,000 home; Ranked by Delivery (000); Preliminary: Live+SD

Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of  9/23-9/27/13 ranked in order by A18-49 Rtg

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Top 11 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of  9/23-9/27//13 ranked in order by HH Rtg

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Broadcast Evening News Weekly Average Ratings (week of September 30, 2013)

NBC Nightly News: 8.49 Million total viewrs; 1.9/8 and 2.22 million A25-54

ABC World News: 7.67 million total viewers; 1.6/7 and 1.90 million A25-54

CBS Evening News: 6.63million total viewers; 1.4/6 and 1.63 million A25-54

Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers and A25-54 Live+SD

Monday A18-49 Analysis: NBC won the most A18-49 viewers with 4.1/11, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. NBC’s The Voice drew 4.3/13 in the 8p hour to beat CBS’s How I Met You Mother (3.0/9) at 8p and Fox’s Bones (2.2/6) at 8:30p. The Voice grew to 5.0/13 in the 9p hour, followed by a 2.8/7 for Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. NBC was still leading the charge at 10p, with new drama Blacklist scoring 3.1/9 versus a 1.9/5 for ABC’s Castle.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, October 7, 2013 – time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  NBC 4.2/11, FOX 2.6/7, ABC 2.1/6, CBS 2.1/6, UNI 1.5/4, TELE .5/1, ION .5/1, CW .3/1, UMA .2/0

Sunday A18-49 Analysis: NBC grabbed the most A18-49 viewers with 6.0/16, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. On a night skewed by football delays, NBC grabbed the 7p hour with pregame Football Night in America, scoring 4.1/12 versus 3.8/10 for CBS’s 60 Minutes. NBC’s game got underway during the 8p hour, scoring 7.3/19 versus 2.6/7 for ABC’s Once Upon a Time. NBC’s football won the 9p hour with 7.4/19; Fox comedy set Family Guy and American Dad averaged 2.3/6. NBC took the 10p hour with 6.8/19; CBS scooped up second place with 1.6/5 for The Good Wife and The Mentalist.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, October 6, 2013 – time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  NBC 6.0/16, CBS 2.4/7, FOX 2.1/6, ABC 1.6/4, UNI 1.1/3, TELE .5/1, ION .3/1, UMA .2/1

Saturday A18-49 Analysis: ABC grabbed the most A18-49 viewers Saturday night with 2.4/8, according to final primetime national ratings from Nielsen. ABC won every hour with its Ohio State/Northwestern game, outscoring NBC’s Notre Dame/ASU matchup 1.6/7 to .8/3 at 8p and Fox’s battling Oklahoma teams 2.1/7 to .9/3 at 9p. NBC’s gridiron matchup came in second in the 10p hour with 1.0/3 versus  2.9/10 for ABC.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Saturday, October 5, 2013 – time period averages. Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD.

A18-49:  ABC 2.4/8, NBC .9/3, CBS .7/2, FOX .7/2, UNI .7/2, ION .3/1, TELE .2/1, UMA .2/1

Matt Wolfe joins ABC News as Production Manager of ABC News Radio. Wolfe had been producer of the morning show at WBAB Radio on Long Island.

Reelz announced the appointment of Steve Cheskin as Senior Vice President of Programming. Previously, Cheskin was Executive Vice President of Programmming at TLC.

Lisa Sherman has resigned as Executive Vice President and GM of Logo, the channel serving the LGBT community. In a statement announcing the exit, President of Viacom Media Networks Music and Logo Group Van Toffler said Logo will “become more fully aligned” with MTV, though the channels will remain “distinctly separate brands.”

Dominic Dare joins Zodiak Clips, the archive division of Zodiak Rights, as Sales Manager. Dare had worked as an agent for Screen Ocean.

Nickelodeon Latin America has promoted Migdalis Silva to Vice President of Programming and Acquisitions. Silva had been Senior Director of Programming and Acquisitions.

Thom Hinkle has been named Vice President, Comedy at TBS. Previously Hinkle ran Carousel Television.

Matthew Fitzgerald has joined Jupiter Entertainment as Director of Production. Fitzgerald will be based in the production company’s Knoxville, TN office.

BBC Worldwide North America appointed Chris Cole as Senior Vice President TV Co-productions and Sales, Factual. Previously, Cole served as part of the BBC’s commissioning team.

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This Day In History sponsored by Velocity. Drive Your Passion: 1986 – The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers debuted on Fox.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Which Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1990-1996) character was replaced midway through the series’ run? Janet Hubert-Whitten was replaced as Vivian Banks by Daphne Maxwell Reid. Kudos to: Bonnary Lek-Travel Channel/Chevy Chase, MD, Barbara Napier-V Media Services/King William, VA, Eric Emeric-AMC Networks/NYC,  Peter Hand-ABC Network/NYC, Mary Brannen-Merriam-Webster.com/Chicago, Barry Wooley-Telepictures/Chicago, Nicole Sherwood/CTV Sales/Chicago, Joanna Kuebel-Entertainment Studios/Chicago, Julie Houston-Tom Scott Communication Shop/Boise, ID, Doug McConville-HDNet Movies-Denver, Cortney Naylor-Swagger Media/Houston, Alyson Stogol-KOLD/Tucson, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA, Brandie Tucker-T Group Productions/Santa Monica, CA, Marty Wadsworth-DGA/LA, Katie Rosenthal-Cox/San Diego, CA.

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2013

ABC: The Middle, Back in the Game, Modern Family, Super Fun Night, Nashville
CBS: Survivor, Criminal Minds, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CW: Arrow [p], The Tomorrow People [p]
FOX: The X Factor
ION: WWE Main Event, Flashpoint, Flashpoint 
MyTV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC: Revolution, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ironside
PBS: Earthflight [f], Nova, Secrets of the Dead
TELE: Premios Billboard de la Musica Mexicana
UMA: El Franco Tirador, La Seleccion, La Madame
Univision: Porque el Amor Manda, La Tempestad, Mentir Para Vivir

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